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Late-Stage Venture at Scale
Growth is our late-stage fund investing in market-leading companies executing on unusually big visions for emerging categories in technology. We are currently investing out of our $5.5B third fund, and manage over $11B across three funds.
We look for bold and ambitious founders building companies with unique and differentiated products, a breakthrough view of their opportunity in the largest markets of the future, and compelling unit economics.
Operating at Scale
Growth-stage companies have found product-market fit and are at an inflection point of growth. If early-stage venture investing is about asking "What if it works?", then late-stage venture is about asking "Is it working, and how big can it be?"
This is a compendium from our seasoned leaders and operators on how to effectively grow and scale your company.
Unique & Differentiated Products
Companies with products that stand apart from the competition and deliver exceptional value.
Breakthrough Market Vision
Founders with a clear and compelling view of their opportunity in the largest markets of the future.
Compelling Unit Economics
Businesses with a clear path to profitability and healthy unit economics at scale.
Growth Perspectives
Practical guidance from seasoned leaders on how to effectively grow and scale your company.
Are You Ready to Be a Public Company?
Going public is not the same as being a public company. When you go public, your company's performance suddenly has a real-time scoreboard: your stock price. It's easy to think that high growth can make up for a low stock price, especially for founders at fast-growing late-stage startups that are still burning cash. But as a public company, the reality is that a low or volatile stock price sucks and can hurt your business. It's bad for employee morale and retention, it's bad for recruiting and hiring new executives...
Read MoreThe Strategic Approach to Building a Board
Building your board forward from product-market fit—instead of backward from an IPO date—helps you clarify the most critical challenges facing your company and find the right people to advise you. A good board of directors can be one of the most strategic—and most undervalued—levers a CEO has to address the challenges of operating at scale...
Read MoreTeam
The CFI Growth team supports portfolio companies across the entire spectrum of company-building including: executive search, board service, technical recruiting, college talent; go-to-market strategy, pricing, revenue operations; brand and marketing; capital markets strategy, benchmarking and data analytics; access to leading cultural leaders.
Grace Ellis
James Kissell
Jim Craig
William Laboy
Mary Lambert
Paul Hoff
Ready to Scale?
If you're a founder at an inflection point and asking "How big can this be?" — we'd love to talk.
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